Meeting Overview
The October hearing was held in Newport Beach. The agenda was packed with several interesting issues including an application to conduct dredging near the Encina Power Plant in San Diego in which the Commission recommended analyzing alternative locations for sand deposition. Another important agenda item touched on low-income housing in the coastal zone and the need for the Commission to encourage applications that contain affordable housing. Finally the Commission struggled with an item of replacing an interpretive center at Crystal Cove State Beach in Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Areas.
Issues voted on at this meeting:
The permit application was for construction of a mixed-use building including commercial office space, 10 low-income housing units, and improvements to parking, landscaping, and sidewalk...
California State Parks proposed to remove an existing Interpretive Center from a parking lot at Crystal Cove State Park and build two new modular structures in Environmentally Sensitive Habitat...
Cabrillo Power submitted an application for a permit to dredge 500,000 cubic yards of sand from the bottom of the Agua Hedionda Lagoon and deposit the dredged sand on North, Middle, and South Beach in Carlsbad...